** BRAZIL. 9645.3, Sept 30 at 0058, no signal from R. Bandeirantes; nor at 0138
when 9630v and 9665v stations are confirmed. I logged it last week, Sept 21 at
0545 with that quarter-hour timesignal, but Brazilians on the radioescutas group
have been concluding the station has quit SW for good. We hope that`s premature,
as lots of stations break down for some reason and come back; let`s keep
checking.

``Apparently,
Rádio Bandeirantes of São Paulo (SP), ended its shortwave transmissions, since
it is no longer captured on 9645 and 6090 kHz; transmission on 11925 kHz had
been suppressed for several months.

Affected by a financial crisis, the
São Paulo station began a wave of layoffs in its workforce in August, not even
sparing established names from the sports department.

The obstructive
cuts, which have reached other parts of the Bandeirantes Group, seem to have
come now to shortwave transmissions. We hope, however, that the traditional
broadcaster of journalism and sport, can overcome this crisis and re-operate on
shortwave soon`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL.
10000, Sept 30 at 0141-0143, PPE, Observatório Nacional with time beeps every
dekasecond, and a louder/longer one at each minute-top. Very week, and can
barely make out ID and time announcements between, but WWV & WWVH are just
as weak here, all adding up to only S1-S2. They do seem well-synchronized (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6165, Sept 30 at 0103, open
carrier/dead air from RHC, and so is 6000. Finally at 0106, 6000 is IDing and
signing on English, so playout operator from studio must have known about the
delay; 6165 is JBM, then 6000 dumps off the air and 6165 to OC; *0107:35, 6000
cuts back on; and so it goes. Will this have thrown off the timing of all the
hour-by-hour repeats? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EAST
TURKISTAN [and non]. 9470, Sept 30 at 0135, CRI English with stox, even NASDAQ,
and running about two words behind 9570 ALBANIA, two words ahead of 9850 CUBA
relays. So it must be between Albania and Cuba? No, Kashgar (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EGYPT. Haven`t surveyed the R. Cairo frequencies
for a while, so how are they doing? Awful, as usual:

12070.00, Sept 30 at
*0048:33, R. Cairo carrier cuts on late just as I tune in, about S9 but just
barely modulated, suptorted, supposedly Spanish

11935.07, Sept 30 at
0052, R. Cairo is about the same as on 12070, i.e. useless, but with a low JBA
het, Brasil?

**
NEWFOUNDLAND. 2598-USB, Sept 30 at 0117, YL in English with lots of numbers, S5
fighting the noise level. Like my Sept 17 log at almost the same minute, it`s
VCM, St. Anthony with marine weather (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** OMAN. 9500, Sept 30 at 0137, ME music, undermodulated tho
S9+20, so R. Sultanate of Oman is on correct frequency tonight, just like
exactly one week ago; could this be a behavioural pattern? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, Sept 30 at 0059, JBA carrier from R.
Chaski, until auto-cutoff at 0105:58.5*, which is 44.5 seconds later than last
check one week ago, Sept 23 until 0105:14*, or averaging 6.36 seconds later per
day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7504.65, Sept 30 at
0132, bigsig of S9+40 as WRNO is reactivated! As in DXLD 15-34, last heard on
March 22, 2015. Think it`s the same main preacher as before with his slightly
strange accent; 0143 singing ``God is good``. So in its new incarnation, WRNO
has decided to reside off-frequency to the low side instead of high. Not checked
further but the previous sked was v0100-0400 only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 880, Sept 29 at 1927 UT on caradio parked at
a quiet location in western Enid, I`m getting not only KRVN Lexington NE, usual
daytime signal here, but a second weaker station, also a talker, and in English.
Try as I can, no clues pulloutable under KRVN. No DFing on that radio, so go
next to the ALA-330S oriented east/west by the NRD-545 and compare signal that
way to the N-S random wire.

KRVN is much stronger on the latter, but
unID gains nothing by nulling KRVN to E-W, so DF rules out KLRG Sheridan AR,
which tho 50 KW ND in daytime, is not known to make it here across inferior
Ozarkian ground conductivity. Still cannot pull an ID across 2000 UT hourtop as
KRVN goes to Fox ``news``. Then I check the archive and the listings. NRC
Pattern Book shows only one other obvious possibility:

Conroe TX, 10/1
kW U4, which is now KJOZ. When we logged it last March not in the daytime, it
was confirmed to be Spanish religion. NRC AM Log 2015 still has it as such,
``Radio Aleluya``, address in Pasadena. However, Terry Krueger, FL, logged it in
August, apparently in English. Searching for presumably current website, we
find:

concluding
with ``As of April 13, 2015, KJOZ has permanently dropped Spanish Christian
programming and relaunched as a progressive talk station with the slogan "Where
diversity finds its voice."``

U4 means directional, different patterns
day and night. NRC PB of 7/15/2013 shows day pattern is almost circular but a
bit lopsided favoring the north, which is helpful for us.

That certainly
makes sense for Houston area via groundwave to here, the station with the best
chance to reach us, if only it weren`t for KRVN. Radio-locator shows site is
about halfway between Houston and Huntsville to the north, i.e. Conroe.
City-to-city distance 714 km = 443 statute miles over good conductivity.

However, it`s odd that I don`t recall hearing such an understation to
KRVN before here at full day, only an hour to one sesquihour after local mean
noon. Has something changed? KRVN 50/50 kW is ND day, westward at night away
from WCBS. Distance to Enid is 514 km = 320 miles over some of the best
ground-conductivity on the continent, producing a fully readable if not very
strong signal.

FCC Query shows that KJOZ does have an APP, but not a CP,
to move to Baytown and *reduce* daytime power to 5 kW (but apparently cover
all-important Houston better). That pattern would have a huge lobe to the NNW,
right toward us and KRVN too!

We would surely be getting 50 kW 740
Houston if not for 50 kW KRMG Tulsa and KTRH nulling toward OK, throwing most of
its day and night signals to the southwest; 610 and 790 are direxional south;
650 is a pennywhistle 250 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 4450-4451, Sept 30 at 0113, weak AM carrier is
jumping around to various spots in this range as I am trying to zero-beat it
exactly and maybe draw some modulation. Is the WOOB Bolivian Radio Santa Ana
known to behave this way? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6925-LSB, Sept 30 at 0044, 2-way in Brazuguese;
maybe ``peskies`` as the North American pirates complain of them, but none heard
on the band now, except 6770. Peskies prefer LSB and are on various spots down
to 6900 or so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

martedì 29 settembre 2015

** BANGLADESH. 15505, Sept 29 at 1359, JBA carrier, but with BFO and headphones
I strain to hear a mis-timesignal from Bangladesh Betar --- and do, the final
chime at 1400:19.5, into Urdu service theme (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) see also INDONESIA

** CHINA [and non].
7200, Sept 29 at 1240, soft song and Chinese talk, over CCI, and also an LSB ham
who is oblivious to such broadcast QRM. Aoki shows jamming and RTI at 10-13;
blowing away Myanmar if it`s really on too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** EAST TURKISTAN. 17630, Sept 29 at 1420, CRI English is fair
with flutter, no echo. Ivo Ivanov recently recorded, presumably in Bulgaria, an
echo here during this hour, confirming that CRI is really also eastward via
Bamako, Mali at the same time on same frequency:

So
far in North America, we only hear Urumqi. After 1500, when I seldom monitor,
but instead write these reports, another CRI English hour on 17630 is supposed
to be via Mali only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE.
9420, Sept 29 at 0557, Greek music, fair with flutter. Has been a while since
both VOG and I were `on the air` at the same time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

4750-, Sept 29 at
1235, RRI Makassar, YL Indonesian talk with LAH from 4750.0 but soon in the
clear mostly with songs; *1258:32.5 the het cuts back on, too much to keep
listening to either. Is that the behaviour of Bangladesh or China?

At
first at 1235 Sept 29, I also have carriers on 3325, 3905, 4870, which could
also be RRIs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN. 11730, Sept
29 at 1322, VIRI is good with lite flutter, 1323 sign-on in Chinese, NA. Don`t
recall hearing this before, and here`s why: per Aoki, 11730 is only at 1220-1320
in Pashto, due east from Sirjan, so they didn`t get it turned off in time. BUT
--- the trouble is, the VIRI Chinese broadcast is scheduled at 1150-1250! via
Sirjan on 17700 and 21455. The next broadcast from Sirjan is supposed to be
Japanese on 13660 from 1323.

Had I known this was so anomalous, would
have kept listening or rechecked later. Per timeanddate.com, DST in Iran ended
Tuesday Sept 22, so have they been confused for a week in the studio,
broadcasting languages an hour off the proper UT scheduled times?! And/or
further mixup between Chinese and Japanese? I, for one, have no trouble telling
those quite different spoken languages apart (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 11600, Sept 29 at 1325, another great Kurdish
music concert from Denge Kurdistane, including a cappella chanting, orchestral
segments past 1359. Good signal via PRIDNESTROVYE. 1417 recheck, however, 11600
is weaker and open carrier/dead air. Has there been a too-rough transmitter-site
swap in the meantime? Yes, supposedly goes at 1400 from Prid. To B`lgariya,
where Ivo Ivanov has often noted the transition is anything but smooth (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 980, Sept 29 at 1220, talk
sounds like style of Antena Radio on IMER stations, as also on 1570 but not
enough signal from both to make a // match with XERF. The IMER station on 980 is
XEFQ, 2500/500 watts, La Voz de la Ciudad del Cobre, Cananea, Sonora, which I
have logged before. At 1235 seems both are singing, now that 980 is under KMBZ.
NW Mexican SRS conditions were quite inferior this morning, not getting much at
this hour on lower channels (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

**
NIGERIA. 9690-, Sept 29 at 0558, open carrier/dead air on good signal from VON;
same at 0559 on 7255-. At least they are on the air unlike 24 hours earlier.
Normally by now they are drumming and chanting. Good night, so over to Wolfgang
Büschel for Hausa details at 0615 UT Sept 29: ``9689.896 kHz heard on fair level
in Germany, S=7-8, fluttery signal. Nothing on 7255v despite Belarus Radio. BUT
heard in US eastern coast remote net units 7254.935 S=8-9 in NJ-US remote unit``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 21530-21650 approx.,
Sept 18 at 1404, extremely distorted wideband FM modulation, but with pauses I
can match to the chat on KTST 101.9 OKC, instead of Twister music, peaking about
21580, i.e. the second harmonic of the ~10.7 MHz IF of some neighbor`s FM
receiver becoming a relay transmitter. Heard several times, always tuned to
KTST. 13m pretty much useless lately, but can also make out 21630 Ascension and
a bit of 21505 Riyadh (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI
ARABIA. 21505, Sept 29 at 1419, poor signal but the SSOB from BSKSA in Arabic,
and would be the OSOB if it were not for even less from 21630 Ascension. These
days, any propagation on 13m is noteworthy. Maybe we are getting into the ``fall
peak`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non].
9370, Sept 28 at 1311, open carrier/dead air from WWRBS with some hum; always
much more hum on 9980 WWCR BS even while modulating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5004.5-USB, Sept 29 at 1302, Navy MARS net,
too close for comfort to WWV on the FRG-7, but no problem on the DX-398 altho
with lesser indoor random wire antenna clipped on. Several stations implying a
note of finality, as if Navy MARS is about to go away. They muse about joining
AF or Army MARS instead, or setting up a ham net of their own. At 1318, NNN0YGW
says, ``dedicated to Navy MARS until it drops under the water``. 1319, he closes
the net for today.

** U S A. 17895, Sept 28 at 1403,
open carrier from VOA Greenville test at S9+20, SSOB, off and back on for a bit;
daily checkout a few hours before the midday broadcast to Africa (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1260, Sept 28 at 1255
UT, ID for 104.1 KSGF, Springfield`s News-Talk, from MO; 5/5 kW, day pattern is
ND, but at night it`s all to the south. What do you know, this FM is not a mere
translator but a genuine 19 kW station, however, licensed to Ash Grove, which is
about 15 miles to the WNW, an afterthought? Official FCC September sunrise is
1200 UT; October, 1215 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S
A. RF 45, Sept 29 at 1435 UT, tropo is up from KSNW 3.1 Wichita KS, NBC, even
tho antenna remains stuck toward OKC; so I try 3.2 and there is ``Telemun`` as
that`s how it gets into the Wichita market, piggybacking on KSNW, but with
breakup. Hepburn`s tropo maps do not show any enhancement around here, and just
marginal in eastern OK. Nor does Mountainlake, just Colorado/New Mexico.

``Univisi`` is also decoding without breakup on RF 31 = 31-1 (kaput KXOK
Enid no longer a blocker). That`s really KDCU-DT, a megawatt pretending to be in
Derby KS, and W9WI.com shows as 46.1 Univision, 46.2 Unimas --- no, displays as
31-1 with no further subchannels. No other Wichita signals are Good enough to
decode under these circumstances (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

domenica 27 settembre 2015

** CHINA. 6200, Sept 27 at 1251, lite song in Chinese? 1254 includes whistling;
1300 Chinese announcement and more music. Aoki says it is: Voice of Jinling,
starting at the odd time of 1240, until 1500, since July 7, 100 kW, 161 degrees
from Nanjing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 560,
unID, Sept 27 at 1147, barely audible, think I hear a station exclaim ``Súper
éxitos . . . México``. Not a formal name unless new, none such in the three
major references, IRCA Log, Cantú and WRTH. This early, it could be any of the 8
XEs except Chetumal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA
[and non]. 4750-, Sept 27 at 1241, RRI Makassar in the clear with Indonesian
music and conversation; but at *1244.4 hit by LAH from 4750.0 Bangladesh or
China, off again, and back on to stay from *1244.7. I wonder if this is an
intentional variable sign-on time for them contrary to known schedules? The LAH
worsens, so no more attempt to listen to RRI today, and both will soon be
outfading (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 600, Sept 27
at 1209, ID for 102.7 FM and next words not originally copied must have been
``La Mejor`` as the only 600/102.7 combo in IRCA Log is XEHW, Mazatlán, Sinaloa.
One of these days relying on FM/AM frequency match will trip us up if there are
two of the same on one pair of frequencies, but odds are against it (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO [and non]. 760, Sept 27 at
*1200 UT, KCCV Overland Park KS pops onto day power of 6 kW, no ID but Bott
Network, and gospel-huxter show with guest short hoary wacko OK Sen. Inhofe to
refute a pope about climate change. I had hoped to hear the XE already, which
the last two mornings was playing nostalgic/American big band music. 1200 UT is
the Sept official KCCV sunrise; Oct: *1230.

1215 UT recheck however, now
the music station has taken over, but romantic vocal ballad music in Spanish
this Sunday, at first making fast SAH with KCCV. Loops WSW. 1218 segué; 1224
announcement about ``760 - en esta hora, La Fantasma, en Geny-AM . . . música
del recuerdo``, i.e. nostalgic in a sense, next tune romantic.

So it`s
the 5000/100 watt Nogales, Sonora station XENY and not XEES Chihuahua2. I wonder
if it signed on at 1215, or just the right time for sunrise skip to push it in,
Enid SR being 1223 UT today (but not until 1315 UT in both Nogales) (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA. 9690- & 7275-, Sept 27
at 0558, no signals from VON, which ought to be ramping up for the Hausa hour;
propagation should be OK as even Romania is audible on 9700 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 96.9 KQOB and 98.1 WWLS-FM, Sunday Sept
27 at 1205 UT are both carrying `Sunday Morning Magazine` in English, breaking
music and sports formats; first guest discussing Oklahoma tax matters, as also
on 930 WKY and 640 KWPN. With one radio handy, can`t check whether synchronized,
but probably all separate playouts. However, not on 98.9 or 100.5, while 104.9
not checked but low power and not necessarily audible here. As I noted last
week, these are commonly-owned cluster RADIO LICENSE HOLDING CBC, LLC; except
KQOB is still licensed to Champlin Broadcasting, Enid; but this program reveals
it`s LMA`d to RLHCBCLLC. FCC Query info does not display LMA deals, tho maybe
they can be dug out somewhere. LMA = local management agreement? I.e. station
leased out to another company (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 870, Sept 27 at 1227 UT, Spanish ad for English
learning with an 800 number, ID I can`t copy, ranchera. 1234 UT ID for ``870,
una estación de ---`` but can`t copy the rest; more music. Loops east/west. With
an ad, it can`t be XETAR Chihuahua, which I did hear a bit of circa 1210 UT but
not logged. This late, the only other XE likely still to propagate, after XETAR
has faded out, is XEFIL in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, 1000/250 watts, W Radio, La
Sinaloense. The only US possibility is 5000/430 watt KLSQ near Las Vegas, NV
which is SS with Univisión América. As for the 800 number clue, México also has
such toll-free deals. Sinaloa is much more of a hotspot for SRS DX here, than NV
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

CHINA
vs ALASKA Strong collision between CRI and KNLS The New Life
Station1400-1457 on 11765 URU 500 kW / 212 deg to SoAs English China Radio
International1400-1500 on 11765 NLS 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs English tx#2
KNLS New Life
Stationwww.youtube.com/watch?v=xBfnC_hWZM8&feature=youtu.bewww.youtube.com/watch?v=YPvSLOAJtRk&feature=youtu.bewww.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ74GaEQ0Fk&feature=youtu.bewww.youtube.com/watch?v=bUUxN8e3VLU&feature=youtu.be

CONGO
REP. Reception of Radio Congo on September 261700-1825 on 6115 BRZ 010 kW
/ non-dir to COG
Frenchwww.youtube.com/watch?v=_H5TMbCy1E4&feature=youtu.bewww.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dqom_jIN8A&feature=youtu.bewww.youtube.com/watch?v=NFaRbmQwMRo&feature=youtu.bewww.youtube.com/watch?v=CycPobPRovA&feature=youtu.bewww.youtube.com/watch?v=kw4oQSYibsw&feature=youtu.bewww.youtube.com/watch?v=7ACDO_3imXk&feature=youtu.bewww.youtube.com/watch?v=0vKdB7zX7jU&feature=youtu.be

ITALY
Radio Latino, Italian pirate station on Sept.251910&1930 on 7595 unknown
transmitter site to
WeEuwww.youtube.com/watch?v=vQt2fOF5eqg&feature=youtu.bewww.youtube.com/watch?v=WIcVKQA4Syo&feature=youtu.be

After more than 90 years the days of the Shipping Forecast may be
numbered due to the demise of long wave technology

It has kept sailors
safe on the ocean waves for 90 years, becoming just as much a part of national
consciousness as cricket, cups of tea and The Archers.

But the days of
hearing the Shipping Forecast out on a boat may be numbered thanks to the demise
of long wave technology, a veteran announcer has said.

Peter Jefferson,
who read the Shipping Forecast to Radio 4 listeners for 40 years, said the "very
old" transmitters which worked on long wave could soon be retired.

If
that was to happen, he said, anyone more than 12 miles from the coastline would
be unable to hear the shipping forecast on long wave, ending a Radio 4 tradition
dating back to 1924.

Speaking at the Radio Times Festival, in Hampton
Court, Mr Jefferson said the soothing tones of the Shipping Forecast would then
be left to its many fans who choose to listen to it from their homes in lieu of
a "sleeping pill".

"Long wave reaches much further than FM, it's as
simple as that," he said.

"So FM would be totally useless for shipping
beyond 12 miles from land.

"So they will not be able to receive the
shipping forecast.

"If long wave is retired, which might be the case,
then I don't know what will happen to the shipping forecast."

He added:
"The long wave will be retired because it's very old and costs a lot to
maintain, I think it's days are numbered now.

"It's a matter of whether they can
find another way of transmitting the shipping forecast to reach as far as i t
needs to."

The future of long wave radio has posed a difficult question
for fans of the medium for years, with the technology required to broadcast it
now fast falling out of date.

The valves used the the transmission
system, based at Droitwich in Worcestershire, are no longer made, with the BBC
said to have once bought up the entire stock of 10 in the world in order to make
it last as long as possible.

A spokesman for the BBC said they were no
firm plans to end long wave broadcasting, and no date set for when the
technology could run out.

The service currently reaches as far as
south-east Iceland, and is occasionally picked up as far as 3,000 miles away.

The forecast, which airs four times a day, is currently listened to by a
large audience on dry land, with the vast majority choosing to tune in for
pleasure rather than professional necessity.

"We all like regularity in
our lives to some extent, to have a soothing voice talking to yo u as are about
to be overtaken by sleep at the same time, with the same words, it's the pattern
of the words," said Mr Jefferson.

"A lot of people find it soothing even
if they don't understand what it means."

The long-serving announcer, who
retired in 2009, also raised questions over changes in the service, which see it
left to a single person to put out.

When a member of the audience said
she found new announcers "highly irritating", and criticised their emphasis on
particular words, Mr Jefferson said: "I do have views, yes."

Of his
early days at Radio 4, he told an audience he had been tested by his older
colleagues in a ritual prank, which saw them take his script away mid-broadcast
and leave him to fend for himself.

** NORWAY. Official announcement of broadcasts from LLE 2 5895 kHz (USB) Bergen
Broadcasting 0600-0800 and from 1300 to 1500 UT daily. We broadcast all night
into Saturday and Sunday. 50 watts, Inverted V antenna. Fine signals in Holland.
The Ipad photo [in posting] is displaying WebSDR Twente. IDs of different types
including Morse code, test tones, announcements by Ron O'Quinn, svennm well as
old and new theme tunes composed by Øyvind Ask, the new one is called MacGyver
in Space. Correct listening reports to report@bergenkringkaster.no
answered occasionally by mail. If you want a QSL card this can be collected at
the station or you may write to Bergen Broadcasting, PO BOX 100, N5331 RONG,
Norway, enclosing $4 in notes. You may have to accept a long delay for a reply
(shared by Svenn Martinsen on WRTH Facebook Group this morning, 24
Sept).

** CHINA [non]. 7210, Sept 26 at 2333, Radio Internacional de China fair in
Spanish with `Puente de la Amistad` show or promo; via ALBANIA at 22-24. I was
looking for N1NR and his anti-Castro buddies but no LSB on the frequency. They
might also be bothered by the ChiCom at 14-15, when CRI is in Chinese eastward
direct from Beijing site. I think their favorite net time is in the mornings
before 14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NETHERLANDS [non]. 7395, Sept 26 at 2335, The Mighty
KBC on test frequency as publicized at least a sesquiweek earlier and on WOR
1791 for 23-24 this date only. Usual fare of rock music; 2338 Uncle Eric
announcement. This makes S9 to S9+20 peaks yet not a totally solid signal.
Nothing on 7375 now so unclear why they would move to 7395 if expanding an hour
earlier.

7375, Sept 27 at 0002, The Mighty KBC is now here on its
regular 00-03 UT Sunday frequency via Nauen, GERMANY, reading S9+35, certainly
stronger than 7395 was earlier, but I wasn`t listening at hourtop for the
transition. Could 7395 be from quite another transmitter site? Now he can tell
us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6950-USB, Sept
27 at 0005, scat song with piano, S9+20 good signal, 0007 Wolverine Radio ID. It
was not on during a pirate-band scan a few minutes earlier. Lots more logs in
this thread, showing songs with ``Girl`` in title were the theme tonight:

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Sept 26 from a few
minutes before 1900 UT until 2001+ UT I am listening on headphones to KETU/KEOR
Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa as accompaniment to my nap. It`s noisy with computers and
TVs running around, but tolerable. Continues to be all-music, a variety of
instrumental styles, and lots of songs with lyrix --- I am dozing but not deeply
and think I would have come to immediately if there had ever been a spoken
announcement. Someone is programming this, as it`s not just cut after cut from
the same albums, no pauses either. And so it goes. All music, all the time, and
they really would mean it (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

**
OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1270, Sat Sept 26 at 2309 I am checking KTUZ Claremore/Tulsa
again, after having heard it a few days ago with a game in English, which I
figured was an aberration, pre-emption of normal Spanish format. But now it is
still in English with sports-talk, and running 15 seconds ahead of originator
KRXO 107.7 OKC, ``The Franchise``, apparently following OSU FB game at UT
Austin. I don`t care who won! At 2357 ID for KRXO/HD etc., The Franchise, not
for KTUZ 1270 which possibly inserted a legal ID a bit later, but not heard.
Tyler Media dominates the OKC Spanish TV & radio market, but also has
English stations, and as the name implies, I think is O&O by
Anglos.

1270 rechecked at 2351 UT Sept 26, now it`s Spanish, but wait ---
from the south/SSE, not ESE. Game in Lubbock is at third quarter, but also
talking about OSU at UT Austin. So this one has faded in from Benbrook, KFLC,
50/5 kW with address in Dallas, format Spanish talk, Univisión América. By
nulling KFLC I can still hear KTUZ in English. They are making a slow SAH circa
1 Hz, but as I start to count it a third station gets in the way. Two of them
anyway make SAH of 2.5 Hz. At 2358 UT as I have rotated the PL-880 back toward
KFLC, adstring in Spanish, including Aflac, Charter Spectrum; 0000 UT Sept 27
Rosetta Stone, but no ID across hourtop before back to game talk.

1270,
Sept 26 at 2356, another English station fades in with Royals baseball; only can
be KSCB Liberal KS per affiliate list/map at

** OKLAHOMA. 93.3, Sept
26 at 2320 UT, C&W, and ``93-3 Jake FM`` ID as usual from KJKE; Artie Bigley
had sent me a Radio Insight item yesterday that it had rebranded itself for
Donald Trump:

``Donald Trump Takes Over Jake-FM Oklahoma City - September
25, 2015 | "Donald Trump" has taken over Tyler Media Country "93.3 Jake-FM" KJKE
Newcastle/Oklahoma City. With Trump set to speak at the Oklahoma State Fair this
evening, his likeness is now operating "93.3 The Donald" with the goal to "Make
Radio Great …``

Fortunately, that was short-lived (with a long I, since
it derives from life, not live), KJKE is marginal here, fading up and down, as
despite 100 kW it`s on the far side of The Metro (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN [and non]. 11634.9,
approx., Sept 26 at 2342, slightly fluxuating LAH between at least two stations,
including some Chinese language. Aoki shows the situation: RTI in Chinese at
22-24 from Tainan site, which has a way of being off-frequency to make matters
worse, and Must Be Jammed by the ChiCom, presumably with CNR1. VOK/KCBS in
Korean is also scheduled on 11635 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** U S A. 4030-USB, UT Sunday Sept 27 at 0015, S7 signal in noise
with lecture on emergency ops, without power or internet, how to prepare? Put
your thinking caps on. Says he disconnects everything when not in use,
transceiver from power, antenna from ATU, and has never had a lightning strike.
Then quotes a message from Region 4 to all Tennessee Army MARS stations,
requiring the mike-1210-alfa mode to be used instead of Olivia or MP63, at least
75b speed, more if it will work; 0020 calling for questions with ID AA4TN. I
thought I had logged him before, but apparently not. Easy google to James T
Faris, Kingsport TN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A.
13564-CW, Sept 26 at 2347, finally I`ve heard again a Part 15 HIFER beacon after
more than a bimonth, and the first one using the NRD-545: GNK, slowly sent over
and over, and JBA vs the ISM hash, CODAR and a rapid pulsing noise, some of
which may be local.

** CUBA. 890, Sept
26 at 0145, Cuban music dominant over WLS without really trying; same on // 4765
but about one second delayed after 890. Also synch on much weaker // 900. R.
Progreso 890 listed as in Chambas, Ciego de Ávila with 200 kW power, matched
only by Rebeldes on 710 and 1180 (each of which also with multiple weaker
synchros around the Greatest of the Antilles to block the wicked worms).
Attention: it is NOT spelt ``Progresso`` --- no double-S`s in Spanish unless
proper name derived from e.g. Italian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 5025, Sept 26 at 0137, R. Rebelde is OFF!
Leaving a JBA carrier on 5024.9, presumably R. Quillabamba, PERU, as measured by
both Thomas Nilsson in Sweden, and Pedro F Arrunátegui, Perú in June on 5024.92.
I don`t see how RQ puts up with the QubaRM in South America. 4765 R. Progreso is
still on. Recheck 0627 Sept 26, Rebelde is back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 760, Sept
26 at 1222, again this morning I am hearing nostalgic music, Spanish ID for
``760`` and a two-word? name I can`t copy, into honky-tonk piano and big band
tune. Overcomes gospel huxter on KCCV at 1226, then reversed at 1227. Possibly
XENY Radio Geny in Nogales, Sonora which I have heard before, but also suspect
Antena Musical in Chihuahua2, XEES. Assuming same programming as on FM
102.5,

it`s
merely unspecified Musical at 6-7:30 am Sat, 6-8 am Sun, but M-F it`s News
starting at 6 am, and I also had NOS music at this time yesterday, Friday. How
about XENY Nogales? Its website http://www.xenygenial.com/

** NORTH
AMERICA. 6950-USB, Sept 26 at 0113, pirate music at S9+15; 0122 Dick Weed of
Radio Free What-ever, back-announcing several tunes and open for requests (Glenn
Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Sept 25 before and
after 1900 UT, no break for ID or any announcement from the Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa
station known to FCC as KETU, but last heard IDing many months ago with its
former call KEOR. I continue to check this sporadically in daytime mostly on
caradio, with sufficient signal, but still NEVER hear any announcements
whatsoever, let alone commercials or IDs, just continuous Mexican music. I have
yet to dedicate 60+ minutes to constant listening, however to be absolutely sure
it is anything but a jukebox, earning nothing while burning electrical fluid and
occupying bandwidth (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH
CAROLINA [non non]. 7355, Sept 26 at 0628, Brother Scare is VG on new frequency.
Ivo Ivanov says it`s WHRI at 06-08 M-F, but this is Saturday. Is this on his own
schedule? http://overcomerministry.org/radio-schedule/

**
U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1792 monitoring: confirmed Friday Sept 25 at
2130 on WRMI 15770; and after a semiminute music fill, from 2130.5 on WRMI 7570.
Also confirmed at 2330 on WRMI 5850 (Fridays, not Thursdays). Next:

** U S A. 7490-AM & 5109.7-CUSB, UT
Sat Sept 26 at 0117, I catch the last part of `Allan Weiner Worldwide` on WBCQs.
Says he got a terrible electric shock last week, from 4 kV DC as he was working
on backup transmitter, and was pushing on a cap he thought had been discharged;
still painful. Going thru e-mail, thanking contributors, says he`s against
same-sex marriage, then praying a benedixion, finishing at 0135, to music on
7490, presumably during BS, while 5109.7 stays on a while longer with OC. 9330
was not on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1060, Sept
26 at 0148 UT, ranchera music, WSW/ENE, 0151 UT segué romantic tune, 0154 UT
another segué and I can`t hang around for any ToH ID. No LAH, and not XERDO from
the south, whence we do get a weak LAH. No Mexicans fit direxion, so presume it
be KXPL El Paso TX, which is *so* Mexican that Cantú pulled it across the
frontera for his list last Feb before he vanished it, as a 10 kW daytimer,
``RADIO NET 1060``. This year`s NRC AM Log denominates it ``Radio El
Paso-Juárez, con su música``. BUT --- official FCC September sunset for KXPL is:
0115 UT (October: 0030 UT). NRC says it does have a 500-w PSRA allowing it to
start at 6 am local when that is before official sunrise (Sept: 1245 UT; Oct:
1315 UT). Anyhow, glad that KIJN is kaput, no longer in the way (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)